2. The best years of his life…To concede that those few years at the turn of the eighties to the nineties were the best years of his life would mean accepting that nothing good would ever happen in his life from then on. He didn’t want that.
So when was it that he had ceased to be sincere in his life? When he lost Lada? Or when he lost Ukraine — but did he? In today’s globalised world you don’t lose your homeland; it is subsumed in that universal globality. Occasionally, he would meet old acquaintances at international congresses. Some of them would come from Ukraine to give papers; some had long since been affiliated to foreign institutions.
Meanwhile, the years flew crazily by. They say that to emigrate is to be re-born. How old was he as an American? Not quite as old as Myroslav was n
